Listen for the body of the other - on choreography, relations and diversity

In their lecture Goran Sergej Pristaš, Ivana Ivkovic og Tomislav Medak presented and discussed five centrally self-organised platforms for cultural exchange in Zagreb.

Policy Forum is an independent platform for discussion growing from the necessity of discussing and creating cultural political change in Croatia.

Clubture is a network of independent cultural organisations from a number of Croatian towns based on program exchange, decentralising of cultural production and intensification of the cultural activity in smaller towns and villages.

Eks-Scena is a self-organised work platform for younger dancers and choreographers having for the past six years coordinated programs to revitalise the Croatian scene for contemporary dance.

Zagreb – Cultural Capital of Europe 3000 (ZCK3000) is a platform for eight of Zagreb’s most important non-institutional cultural organisators from different fields such as performing arts, visual arts, architecture and city planning.

Reclaim The City is an initiative focusing on activism in the urban, public rooms influencing the political life in Zagreb.

Goran Sergej Pristaš is a dramaturge and a professor at Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb and a program coordinator for Centre for Drama Art in Zagreb. He founded the magazine Frakcija (Fraction) in 1996, and worked as its editor until recently. Pristaš was among the people initiating the project Zagreb – Cultural Capital of Europe 3000.

Ivana Ivkovic studied dramaturgy by Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb. She is co-editor in and works among other things for 3rd Program of Croatian Radio, as a coordinator for Zagreb – Cultural Capital of Europe 3000 and as writer for several magazines. She is a dramaturge for the companies oour and BADco. based in Zagreb. With Davide Grassi she was an editor for the book Demokino - Virtual Biopolitical Agora (Aksioma and Maska, 2006).

Tomislav Medak is a philosopher with interest for political philosophy, media theory and aesthetics. He coordinates the theory program and the publishing of books at Multimedia Institute in Zagreb. He is an advocate for free software and a project leader for Croatian Creative Commons Team. He is also on the board for the international organisation Icommons.

Source:

BIT Teatergarasjen, Oktoberdans 2008. 12.08.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no -arkiv